Cuneo Civic Library - Information
Civic Library of Cuneo
Office contact details
Contacts
: Telephone: 0171 444 640 (for renewals 0171 444 656 – Tuesday to Saturday, 9:30 am to 12:00 pm)
Email: biblioteca@comune.cuneo.it
Opening hours
Library catalog
Searches in the library catalog are conducted through theSBNCloud OPAC. Availability is updated in real time.
With the transition to SBNCloud (active since 06/07/2026), the Librinlinea regional catalog is no longer updated.
Description of functions
It is the oldest civic library in Piedmont; the first documents relating to its institution date back to 1802, with its opening in 1803, when Cuneo, under French domination, was the capital of the Stura Department.
In 2026, the Cuneo Civic Library moved from the seventeenth-century Palazzo Audiffredi to Esseci, a new cultural center in the historic center of the capital of the Granda region, in the eighteenth-century building, formerly the city hospital.
It holds 300,000 volumes, records 50,000 loans per year, manages the Legal Deposit, hosts numerous events, including book presentations and exhibitions, and edits several publications.
It is the Network Centre of the Cuneo Library System.
Organizes, with the Department of Culture, the City of Cuneo Award for the First Novel and scrittorincittà:
